The Luxembourg Museum and an Irish Pub
Friday, June 20, 2014
20.06.2014 - 21.06.2014
Up all night coughing again. I turned off my alarm and we slept late. Kind of wasted the morning reading, checking e-mail, etc. and headed out noonish. We wanted to see the “Josephine” exhibit at the Luxembourg so headed in that general direction. We found ourselves in the Irish Pub across from Hotel Clement and ordered sandwiches. Ed got a chicken Coolin and I got the agneau seché, an excellent substitute for a BLT for those who don’t eat pork. The sandwiches were fine but served with a massive amount of fries that we both skipped. Ed got a Kilkenny beer and I got a Perrier, and that was plenty.
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Poster for the Josephine Exhibit at the Luxembourg Museum
Walked on over to the Luxembourg and got our tickets. We were surprised to discover I could take pictures. Joy! I almost hadn’t brought my camera. Napoleon’s first wife, Josephine, was the subject and it featured her, her home, clothes, furniture and jewelry and then her art collection. There was a marvelous tapestry portrait of her and earlier in this trip at Fontainebleau we had seen the Gerard painting that inspired this tapestry. The painting and the tapestry are mirror images for some reason. If you put them beside each other, they would be facing each other. I have no idea why this is nor could I find any answer online. It was interesting and the portrait is well done. The whole exhibit was very well done . . . as the Luxembourg exhibits always are. [Luxembourg Museum, 9 Rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris; tel: +33 (0)1 4013-6200; Luxembourg Museum web site]
Josephine after Francois Gerard (collection of Chateaus of Malmaison and Bois-Preau)
Portrait of Napoleon as First Consul by Andrea Appiani
From a collection of Josephine's furniture
Harp in the Josephine exhibit
Part of the Josephine exhibit at the Luxembourg Museum
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We walked back to rue Guisarde and got gelato at Amorino’s before walking home. We’re both wiped out from these colds.
Posted by Beausoleil 11:22 Archived in France Tagged paris luxembourg_museum
Last month I stayed at a hotel near the Luxembourg Museum, so I walked and rode past it fairly often, but for some reason I didn't manage to see the Pissarro exhibition that they had on at the time. It's still there until July 9, however, so maybe I can see it before it closes.
Too bad about your colds...
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